The Twilight Zone (TV Series)

What You Need (1959)

Steve Cochran: Fred Renard

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• [first lines] 

  Bartender : You ready for another?

  Fred Renard : I'm fine.

  Bartender : You've been fine for an hour. We sell booze here, mister. We don't just rent space.

  Fred Renard : Is that a fact?

  Bartender : That's a fact, buddy.

  Fred Renard : How would you like to take a flying jump at the moon?

• Pedott : It must stop now!

  Fred Renard : Why? Why does it have to stop?

  Pedott : Because the things you need most, I can't supply.

  Fred Renard : What are they?

  Pedott : Serenity, peace of mind, humor, the ability to laugh at oneself. Those are the things you need most, but it beyond my power to give them to you.

• Fred Renard : [putting on new shoes]  These shoes are too tight. These shoes are too tight! And they got leather soles. I hate leather soles. They're slippery. But they're what I need aren't they? I put 'em on and then I walk someplace, is that it? I walk someplace where I find what I need. What's with it, old man? What happens? I'm waiting!

  Pedott : Patience. That's another thing that you need, Mr. Renard. Patience

  Fred Renard : What are you doing, giving me the business? Is that what you're doing, giving me the business? You know, I can come over there and take you apart bone by bone!

  [approaches menacingly to Pedott] 

  Fred Renard : Come on, old man, tell me. Are these what I need?

  Pedott : I didn't say they were. But I'll tell you something; They happen to be what *I* need.

  [Enraged, Renard tries to pursue Pedott, only to slide on the wet pavement. A car comes by and Renard reacts in terror as he is hit and killed] 

  Pedott : Mr. Renard, what I saw in your eyes at that bar was death, my death. You were going to kill me. So what was needed for Mr. Renard was slippery shoes. That's what was needed, slippery shoes.